We were able to avoid the attic today in an assisted living center and
didn't have to climb in there to make an Ethernet connection for a new
computer. We were able to steal two pair off a phone cable and get a
good high speed connection. It's 8:00pm here in Birmingham and still
93°F and it acts like it wants to rain here like it did in Huntsville
while we were working today. It rained sideways and dropped hail the
size of marbles. I can imagine how those guys out West are fairing
because back in '87 I was working out in the Marshall Islands inside
a gutted section of building that was to become mission control for
the SDI missile test range. There was no air circulation and it was the
first time I wound up in the hospital with kidney stones. O_o
TDD

Not necessarily, I was on a coral island and the fresh water came from
lens-wells which often imparts high calcium levels in the potable water.
I started drinking bottled water before obtaining a Sears water
distillation unit and had no further kidney stone problems. ^_^
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id 3142120
TDD

That answers it. High calcium levels is not good. I lived in an area
with Radioactive water. Deep wells around uranium deposits brought
water up with alpha emitters. Caused a problem with the supply as
well as with the waste treatment plant which dumped treated water into
a reservoir.
Too bad. I'ved in 8 states and only one place had pure, clean water
out of the tap and that was on the peninsula in Washington state. The
worst was Pennsylvania. I had a house built and on the walk through
the builder told me then that I needed a treatment system, not a
softener. Cost of the system was over $3000 in 1970. When he showed
me the water out of the tap it was slightly yellow. He said that 1/3
of the water supply is artesian well water. 1/3 is Delaware river and
the last third is water from the sewage treatment plant, the reason
for the yellow. Of course he told me it was all legal and approved. We
wouldn't drink it. Water in Arizona has sand in it. I had sand on
the shower floor.
John

I'm very blessed to have good tap water. If I freeze it, and thaw, there is
some white precipitate, gives it a snow dome effect.
One friend (South Carolina) has crap from the faucet, and lives by his Big
Berkey table top water filter. Another friend from Colorado can taste the
forest fire in his tap water.
Have you tried a Big Berkey?
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
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That answers it. High calcium levels is not good. I lived in an area
with Radioactive water. Deep wells around uranium deposits brought
water up with alpha emitters. Caused a problem with the supply as
well as with the waste treatment plant which dumped treated water into
a reservoir.
Too bad. I'ved in 8 states and only one place had pure, clean water
out of the tap and that was on the peninsula in Washington state. The
worst was Pennsylvania. I had a house built and on the walk through
the builder told me then that I needed a treatment system, not a
softener. Cost of the system was over $3000 in 1970. When he showed
me the water out of the tap it was slightly yellow. He said that 1/3
of the water supply is artesian well water. 1/3 is Delaware river and
the last third is water from the sewage treatment plant, the reason
for the yellow. Of course he told me it was all legal and approved. We
wouldn't drink it. Water in Arizona has sand in it. I had sand on
the shower floor.
John

Yow, those are both sources of chemicals.
Berkey, is a water filter that sits on the table or counter. Contains
ceramic "candles" which filter out bad stuff.
http://www.bigberkeywaterfilters.com /
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
.

South Carolina is where the Savannah River Plant is. Make Plutonium.
Forest Fire taste? I can imagine that.
What is a "Big Berkey"?

Many go into work at 10 pm and leave at 6 am. Others work on ice
machines in supermarkets. The entire country is in heat. Not many
places one can go to get away from it. When I entered the
apprenticeship there were about 100,000 techs short nationwide. Here
it is 40 + years later and I suspect the numbers are higher than that.

Way up north in NYS, it was in the nineties, yesterday (July 06, 2012). I
drank amazing ammounts of water, and still came home sore and dehydrated.
Much of my work was outdoors in the hazy sun, I'm sure I will be feeling
some sun burn.
The entire country is "in heat"? Does that mean that we're all running
around trying to find persons of the other gender to make whoopie?
With the Obama economy "it's all Bush's fault" maybe there are enough techs
for the jobs, now?
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
.

Many go into work at 10 pm and leave at 6 am. Others work on ice
machines in supermarkets. The entire country is in heat. Not many
places one can go to get away from it. When I entered the
apprenticeship there were about 100,000 techs short nationwide. Here
it is 40 + years later and I suspect the numbers are higher than that.

face=Verdana>...<BR>&gt;&gt;<BR>&gt;&gt;I wonder how the guys in Phoenix and
Tucson are faring?<BR>&gt;&gt;<BR>&gt; Many go into work at 10 pm and leave at 6
am.&nbsp; Others work on ice<BR>&gt; machines in supermarkets.&nbsp; The entire
country is in heat.&nbsp; Not many<BR>&gt; places one can go to get away from
it.&nbsp; When I entered the<BR>&gt; apprenticeship there were about 100,000
techs short nationwide. Here<BR>&gt; it is 40 + years later and I suspect the
numbers are higher than that.<BR>&gt; <BR>&gt;</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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You may be better off, not knowing?
Did you have your hired hands rope up
bagged ice, for you to put under your
shirt?
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
.
Had 2 calls in unventilated attics yesterday.. one was
a coil replacement, the other was a blower motor. It
was 100F outside, no tellin what it was in those attics.

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